Walking Marginal

"Walking Marginal" is a study of the landscape at the intersection of natural and urban environment, looking for places configured within the city simultaneously as waste, resource and refuge for biodiversity.

"Walking marginal" is a study of the landscape at the intersection of the natural and urban environment, looking for the relationship with areas where different habitats intertwine to create something new and unexpected, places to be protected as custodians of wealth and change. Since the birth of urban ecology, many architects, landscape planners and ecologists have turned their attention to these areas that represent an opportunity for change in the relationship between man and nature, which are configured within the city simultaneously as waste, resource and refuge for biodiversity, Gilles Clément calls them "undecided spaces". Walking and standing in these places gives us the opportunity to develop a flexible gaze open to heterogeneity, searching for a new ethics capable of relating the human project with nature, not considered as something distant and idyllic but a space in which to search for our identity. The project urges a process of decolonisation of the gaze, which presupposes a resilient anthropisation, capable of entering into a relationship with what surrounds us, beginning to replace a language of supremacy with one of equality and mutual exchange. The new vision of relationship proposed by the British anthropologist Tim Ingold sees the human being as a line always moving along a path that leads to interweaving of other lines; thinking of people and things as bundles of lines that can cling to each other leads us to change the structure of thinking about the outside world. I have travelled those edge zones that remind us how we are all, in some way, marginal creatures: hybrids, mutants, constantly changing mixtures.